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Hello everyone,I am working with a follow teacher who has been using the Flipgrid LTI the past several years with no issues. She teaches ASL so her students are using flipgrid for many assignments. This Term (started last week) she created an assignm...

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When I go to the browser to enter a hex code to change the colors it works. But when I go into the app all the colors are way darker then what I entered. Why is this happening? I enter bright colors and it works but not in the app.

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Canvas is saying im missing some computer requirements

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I am in the process of creating Item Bank Questions for each week of lecture topic and also separating by points (I have 1 point Item Banks and 3 point Item Banks for Week 1 as an example).When I create the Exam, and select however many questions fro...

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Is it possible to update the reporting to show time in course instead of page views? This is a need for many schools for state attendance reporting. 

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I am on mac and do not have chrome installed, but the browser update banner pops up when I log in and tells me chrome is not up to date. I have already cleared cookies and it still pops up. Is there a step I am missing?

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Can I add the Test Student to the attendance "Roll Call"?

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Hello,I am looking for an easier way than copy & paste to make a quiz from a Google doc. Is there a better solution than "Automagical Forms" which costs $260 per year?Thanks,Dave

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After the new year, images that I embed into Canvas quizzes started to be much too large for students to see. I found a fix as Canvas allows you to edit the size of the picture to "medium." After having done that, the next day, every single picture i...

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For some reason, when I assign a practice quiz, it is not appearing on students calendars as due. Does anyone know how to fix this?

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I am a technology specialist trying to support a teacher. The teacher has some students taking a class (Macroeconomics) that has some similar/ same content as a class they previously took with him (micro). He wants to assign returning students in the...

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I implemented OpenID connect flow to launch LTI tool from canvas. After launching tool, I got id token in return. How can we use id token to get access token?

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Hi Canvas has been glitching for me only since yesterday evening. I use Chrome to access Canvas.please can you let me know how I can get this fixed as I have an exam on Friday so really urgent for my revision.thank youregardsMita

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Using the lti.frameResize postMessage to send the height of an iframe to its full content height on assignment pages. This iframe is simple html content from a self authored external resource.This works great on a desktop browser and on a mobile devi...

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Because Canvas seems be b ignoring requests for a drawing-type question in quizzes, I've been trying to find a tool that I can embed into a quiz question. I often use quizzes as lessons rather than assessments, including multiple questions I want ans...

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My classes are on canvas, but there is only one class that had the due dates automatically updated to the calendar, I cannot see the due dates for my assignments for any of my other classes. Oddly enough it works on the app but not the website. Is th...

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For my first assignment, Canvas's Assignment Dashboard/Upload buttons do not show the submission button- I can choose to upload the assignment, but it won;t let me submit it.  Same problem using Firefox and on Chrome- resizing won't help.  I suspect ...

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I am staying at the same College but changing jobs. How can I remove myself from Canvas courses? I have a teacher title in the courses. I can remove others but do not see an option to remove myself. Thoughts please?

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Hi everyone,I hope all's well.We are trying to run analytics on quizzes via Student & Item Analysis.  This week we had to change some former learners' roles back to Student to get their grades visible in the quizzes. However - for some quizzes, their...

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I have some projects where students basically do multiple mini-projects--like a timeline of 10 scientists with the same 7 bits of information provided for each one. When I was grading these on paper, I used a grid rubric that let me just go across ea...

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When I open the "Status" menu for an individual assignment, I do not have the option to select "Resubmitted." What can I do to add that category back into my menu?

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I have submitted my document as an attached file, I can see the file when I click on the assignment, and it shows submitted with the date and time submitted. However, on the bottom in between the "previous" and "next" buttons, there is a button that ...

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Hello! I am trying to create a new assignment, but when I click "Submission" and then click "External Tool," I no longer see the Google Drive option, but instead I see "Google Assignments LTI.3." When I click on that button, it says that my current e...

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I do not see my past courses under my dashboard. Can you help me view these?

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Is there any way to exclude students from an assignment?

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Hi there,When I try to login to Respondus, it says my browser is not up to date however, I updated lockdown browser and chrome and it still isn't working so I am unsure of what to do. Thank you! 

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The setup: Students have to complete weekly modules in order to access the final exam. The weekly modules are set as pre-requisites for the exam module.The issue: If a student once completes a required module but then the instructor changes their gra...

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Hi,I am working with a faculty member who set up a Flip assignment using the Flip-Canvas app integration. Students were able to successfully participate in the Flip, but now that it's time to grade, the faculty cannot see the videos in their Speedgra...

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How do I delay Announcements copied from a previous semester.  I understand how to delay new Announcements, but not copied ones.

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I-learn says to click on "courses," then the name of the course, then "grades" but I don't see a "grades" link to click on anywhere on the page.

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